{"id":41268,"date":"2025-04-22T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41268\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:13:10","slug":"air-ambulance-called-to-emergency-incident-on-college-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41268\/","title":{"rendered":"Air ambulance called to emergency incident on College Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hazardous area response team also attended the scene<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_AD_22-04-2025_collegegreen.jpg\" alt=\"Air ambulance above College Green.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The air ambulance over College Green.(Image: Tom Spencer-Hutchings)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Emergency services rushed to Bristol <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bristol-city-centre\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">city centre<\/a> this morning, Tuesday, April 22, due to a serious medical incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At 9.41am this morning, the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/south-western-ambulance-service\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">South Western Ambulance<\/a> Service <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/nhs\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> Foundation Trust (SWASFT) were called to an incident on College Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">According to a witness, several ambulance vehicles arrived at the scene, including the air ambulance..<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In total, two double-crewed land ambulances, an air ambulance, an operations officer, a first responder, a doctor and the hazardous area response team were sent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The SWASFT were also joined by Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers were asked by the ambulance service to help assist in dealing with the medical incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_AD_22-04-2025_collegegreen_02.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulance vehicles responding to medical emergency.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Ambulance vehicles responding to medical emergency.(Image: Tom Spencer-Hutchings)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">College Green was closed off to traffic to allow for the paramedics to treat the person affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The person was later taken to hospital by a land ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the SWASFT said: \u201cWe were called at 9.41am on Tuesday, April 22, to an incident in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We sent two double-crewed land ambulances, an air ambulance, an operations officer, a first responder, a doctor, and the hazardous area response team to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Bristol Royal Infirmary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745331190_975_1_AD_22-04-2025_collegegreen.jpg\" alt=\"Air ambulance above College Green.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Air ambulance above College Green.(Image: Tom Spencer-Hutchings)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: &#8220;We were asked by the ambulance service to support them while their paramedics were responding to a medical incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">According to a witness, the area was cleared by around 10.40am and the road was reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hazardous area response team also attended the sceneThe air ambulance over College Green.(Image: Tom Spencer-Hutchings) Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,799,748,393,4884,211,9421,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-41268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-city-centre","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-nhs","15":"tag-south-western-ambulance-service","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114382032377282018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}